Sadakat Kadri’s Heaven on Earth is the kind of book that can appeal to the curious, as well as the intellectually serious—that strange product which actually leaves you knowing more about Islam than you did before you started.

Islamophobia is an ideological project and it is not limited to cartoons. It is not the purview of the political right. It is not a Zionist conspiracy. It is not an evangelical polemic. It draws on the uncertainty about Islam that pervades the American public square since 9/11.